Valley View Miniature Galloways

18/06/2024

When we let Torcroft Nicholas in with the cows, he went straight over to Ashdown Clementine and introduced himself. We know the exact date of service which equates to a due date of TODAY. She knows I'm busting at the seams to see her calf and for calving to begin so she's keeping us waiting!

Our family have guessed the following for her calf: solid dun heifer, white with dun point heifer, white with black point bull, black bull and our 4 year old thinks it will be a rainbow unicorn 🤣 what are your guesses for her calf's colour and gender??

13/06/2024

Progeny dropping any day now.... Will they be heifers or will they be bulls? Will they be curly like Dad or straight and fluffy like some of the Mums? Will they be black, dun or red? Or white with any of those coloured points?

The possibilities are unpredictable and the wait is excruciating but the cuteness and love is guaranteed!

09/06/2024

Down to single days before calving begins! Put the cows through the yards for a once over and now in the House Paddock where we can watch them from the lounge room 👀

19/05/2024

4 more weeks! Nearly there now girls ❤

03/05/2024

I would like to thank all those who have submitted applications for our 2024 calving - to be available around Christmas time for their new homes.

We will be reviewing applications in the coming few weeks. If anyone is interested in submitting new applications, this is a last minute reminder to please do so ASAP to be considered.

Prepare yourselves for many, many calf photos!

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28/04/2024

Look who we brought home today! 😍 Nicholas will now be spending some time with some steers while the galloway girls get ready for calving... so excited for this year's calving!

12/04/2024

Some photos from the paddock this afternoon. The girls are really starting to pop now! 9 weeks to go until calving starts 🥰

28/03/2024

It doesn't matter what the mischief is, the galloways are always in the lead, teaching the Angus their cheeky ways 🤣 today's antics were trying to sneak through the gate as I drove through! Little bit of hay down the far end had the Angus distracted but Valley View Trooper and Twilight still made a dash for the open gate and paddock of not yet ready turnips! Too slow girls!

11/02/2024

I received the following email last night from the beautiful family who adopted Toto and Trinket. This is why we have the miniatures. This is why we spend so many hours with our calves and give them so much love. To see people loving them back is just the best feeling in the world!

"Just thought I'd send you this beautiful photo of our 3 babies. The bovine pair are just lovely, such gorgeous little personalities, and you can see here, so loving and gentle. We love them and they are spoilt rotten!"

18/01/2024

We are in love with Nicholas' temperament! Can't wait to see his progeny mid year! 😍

11/12/2023

A beautiful day here with some summer weather finally showing itself! The galloways are doing their thing, clearing a paddock on the fire prone side of a property.

Nicholas has settled in beautifully and is very smitten with his girls! Will preg test the cows after hay has been cut but, all going well, 9 calves should be growing.... we are SO excited to see what colours our calves could be with the addition of dun and new red genetics to our herd 😍

25/10/2023

Ploughing today ready to sow turnips for winter feed.... you can always bet that the white cows will be the first to find anything they can cover themselves with 😂 Clementine, Spring Blossom and Sleeping Beauty plotting how to make themselves as dirty as possible while the black galloways don't even care!

09/09/2023

Calves.... loading ⏳⏳⏳

Seriously though, check out that gorgeous little trot when he was let out of the paddock and could smell his new girls! 😍

If anyone is wanting to enquire about adopting calves, we are now accepting applications for the next drop!

27/07/2023

So way back at the start of January, I put word out to other studs across the country seeking a unicorn... a solid black but red gene carrying bull. Now reds are relatively rare across Australia and most of the red genetics are held by a small number of studs. I knew it was a long shot.

So many studs reached out and offered their bulls but none quite met what I was after. AND THEN! Torcroft Miniature Galloway Stud reached out to me and said they may have a bull that met unicorn standards - Torcroft Nicholas, a solid dun (dun ranges from silver to chocolate) who carried the red gene!

After a very long wait for all the ducks to be in a line, today he arrived here, his new home! He is very over travelling and quite happily spent the day in the sun! We are so excited to have him join our herd! He is not only an exceptionally well bred and formed animal but also with his genetics will allow us the possibility to breed any of the galloway colours - black, dun, red and white with any coloured points... a true unicorn!

Forever thanks to Patrice Hunder for allowing us this amazing opportunity and making it all happen with about 12 hours notice!

08/07/2023

We dropped Toto and Trinket to their amazing new home at Gordon today. As a breeder of any animal, I think it falls on you to find good homes for your animals and this gorgeous pair have found an amazing home. Erica, Simon and Keira built the galloways an amazing shelter, have acres of beautiful green grass and there's even talk of cow coats 😂 they are already adored and I love that for them.

Toto and Trinket are a beautiful pair and, although I'm slightly jealous of their new water views, we are so happy for them and their new family and wish them many happy years together ❤

A little collage of my favourite boy and girl from birth to today 😍

21/06/2023

A first taste of show life for Trooper (black) and Twilight (white with black points). They both had their first wash and blow dry today! Being so long haired and thick coated, they take a fair bit of time and effort to wash and blow dry but look how stunning they look!

16/06/2023

Stay tuned...... unbelievably exciting news coming to this page soon 🥳🥳🥳

15/06/2023

Our 'T' calves are so, so good! They're our quietest, most docile calves yet! I'm so excited for Toto and Trinkets new family and also to get Trooper and Twilight ready to add to our show team going forwards.

A big shout out to our amazing friends at Cloverside Murray Greys for their help with the calves this year and the dry (less wet than here anyway!) paddocks!

01/06/2023

Halters are on! T calves - Toto, Trinket, Twilight and Trooper

24/05/2023

Just in case you need more calf spam, here's a few more!

23/05/2023

Day 1 of training and kicking the goals right out of the park! Your new family has hit the jackpot 🥳

Starring Toto and Trinket ❤

02/05/2023

A great video that mentions just a few reasons why we love our galloways 😍

https://fb.watch/kgoY8kKzzB/?mibextid=NnVzG8

08/04/2023

With snow coming tonight, I thought I'd share this from Thursday

I heard a strange squeaking noise from the house and went to investigate. I found Black Pearl having the best butt scratch ever against the old, disused cattle yards 😂

19/03/2023

I know we aren't supposed to have favourites but.... Sapphire 😍

09/03/2023

It was pointed out to me today that we've been very quiet on social media lately!

We are still here and we still love our cows! It's a busy time of year here - crops growing ready for winter feed, doing farming jobs that need to be done before the cold, wet winter arrives and still trying to be a functioning part of society 😂

Toto and Trinket have found a wonderful home while Twilight and Trooper will stay with us for future breeding. Whilst the calves have finished their 'training' as such for now, we still spend time around them in the paddock. Once they're weaned, they'll go through a month of more intensive training without mums around to refine their manner - although these calves are so quiet and well natured that I don't think it will take much!

17/12/2022

It is with much relief that I can now introduce Valley View Trooper! Given her stoic battle and after showing great perseverance, Trooper seemed a very fitting name.

Dam: Gunadoo Erin (MEK L3)
Sire: Gleneagles Phantom (IRB P5)

Toto, Twilight and Trinket have their curious hats on and are thrilled to have another paddock play mate!

15/12/2022

Woke this morning to Erin having birthed a beautiful solid black heifer. Unfortunately, she doesn't want a bar of it. We've separated Erin and her calf and put them in the yards, we'll see what happens. I'm not naming this calf just yet, will see if she makes it through before naming 🤞🏻

11/12/2022

For those people waiting to know about adopting some animals, we are STILL waiting for our last calf! I swear Erin knows we are impatient and is holding out just to test our patience! There's one more week in the 6 week 'calving window' so we are expecting her to calve this week ❤

17/11/2022

Valley View Trinket (TAS T4)
White with black point heifer

We knew there was a reasonable chance that this calf would be born with washed out points as can often be the case with two white parents (thus why most breeders put a solid colour bull over white cows). In this case, it's proven true. Having said that, this heifer carries an impressive line of red genetics and we will retain her for future breeding plans 🥰

17/11/2022

Valley View Twilight (TAS T3)
White with black point heifer